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Grade 1 winner Quel Destin provides the perfect finale to 2018
Quel Destin showed class and bravery to win the Finale Junior HurdleCredit: Alan Crowhurst (Getty Images)
After plenty of ups and downs, it was great to end 2018 with a second Grade 1 winner of the year when Quel Destin landed Chepstow’s Finale Junior Hurdle on Thursday.
It was a pleasure to be asked to ride him by Paul Nicholls and there was plenty of confidence in his chance even though he was taking on an odds-on favourite in Adjali.
I watched all his videos beforehand and was impressed, but you don’t get the full picture until you have ridden a horse on the racecourse.
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